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Campbell elected fellow of ASPRS

By Sally Harris

Spectrum Volume 18 Issue 34 - June 27, 1996

James B. Campbell, professor and head of the geography department at
Virginia Tech, has been elected a fellow of the American Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for his "exceptional service in advancing the
science and use of the mapping sciences and related disciplines."

Campbell, who teaches remote sensing, physical geography, and quantitative
methods, is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's
Who in the Southand Southwest. His research, devoted to several
topics in the fields of geographic information systems, remote sensing, image
analysis, and analysis of soil variability, has been funded by such
organizations as NASA and the National Science Foundation.

At Virginia Tech, Campbell has developed links to students and faculty members
in other programs across the university and has chaired numerous graduate
research committees in geography as well as served on graduate committees in
other departments in five colleges of the university. He has initiated new
courses and developed numerous laboratory materials, field excursions, and
computer exercises. His text, Introduction to Remote Sensing (now in its
second edition), is widely used for university courses in several disciplines
in the United States and Canada.

He is also the author of the book Mapping the Land: Aerial Imagery for Land
Use Mapping and co-author of Soil Landscape Analysis. He is author
or co-author of more than 25 articles published in professional journals.

Campbell is a member of several professional societies and has held offices at
both local and national levels of the American Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing. He has served as an associate editor of the society's journal,
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. In 1994, he received the
society's Outstanding Service Award.